I need help setting up setting up mongo Database to flask python

[wintry sleet]

pymongo is not defined

anybody know why?

[verbal imp]

you don't have mongo.py in gmt folder

[wintry sleet]

because i dont have a python folder named mongo

its a package

i dont understand

@verbal imp thx for your attempt btw appreciate you msging me

[verbal imp]

from .. import means from folder up to current folder import something, if you want import something from installed packages don't put it in relative import

[wintry sleet]

ohh i see the confusion

so the thing is i didnt write this code, im working with a team but i am unable to locally run the html code iv made a local mongo database but after running that i recieved this bugs, i dont really know what to write as i am new to html

i am learning on the way

they are unable to help for reasons so i decided

[verbal imp]

thats python not html

[wintry sleet]

yeah ik but for that to work i was told this should be fixed

and idk what to import from

do you have any idea what directory is needed to import mail and mongo

or articles etc

[verbal imp]

show content of gmt/__inint__.py or if its empty what files are in gmt folder

[wintry sleet]

should i show you the code in inint.py

hold on il show you the content

files in gmt folder:

[wintry sleet]

@verbal imp ?

[verbal imp]

show full error first including command you run

[wintry sleet]

ofc

is that sufficient?

or did i not send the right thing

[verbal imp]

its ok

show __init__.py

[verbal imp]

you shouldn't add that view to ..

mongo is local variable to function create_app it cannot be imported in other file

[wintry sleet]

so should i keep it only ..

[verbal imp]

yes just ..

[wintry sleet]

in line 11 yes?

i

recieved an error

but views package is installed

[verbal imp]

it has to be from .. import

like it was from beginning

[wintry sleet]

oh im stupid

yeah my bad

[verbal imp]

in file __init__.py at line 11 add mongo = PyMongo() and in line 20 change to mongo.init_app(app)

[wintry sleet]

im installing freepaser now

i have installed it with pip

but it still shows this

[verbal imp]

thats old error you run twice after that without error

[wintry sleet]

odd it didnt, im a reload vs code

@verbal imp

nice that worked, can u help me take care of the other errors

[verbal imp]

what it is suppose to be that get_news? function then you don't have such in __init__.py

and judging by the name it don't belong to that file

[wintry sleet]

sorry?

[verbal imp]

in which file you have get_news function or variable defined?

[wintry sleet]

i have it defined in news.py

[verbal imp]

then why you changed it form this which was correct to just ..

.. means go up one directory if there is nothing more python will check __init__.py file, if your import is in different file you need to add that file name (without .py extension)

so ..news

[wintry sleet]

like this yeah?

[wintry sleet]

ohhh i see

[verbal imp]

yes

[wintry sleet]

AYYY

wait..

this is fine right?

[verbal imp]

yes

[wintry sleet]

THX SO MUCH BTW I REALLY APPRECIATE IT (You dont know how much this helps lmao)

i have one more enquiry if you dont mind

[verbal imp]

ask

[wintry sleet]

thx

so

with your help (thx again) i am running on the server however im receiving this problem

[verbal imp]

how did you open it?

[wintry sleet]

open live

locally

@verbal imp any idea?

[verbal imp]

something wrong with templates

[wintry sleet]

config template?

[wintry sleet]

could that be why

[verbal imp]

idk which one

[wintry sleet]

Do you wanna live share I really want to start coding on my page as soon as possible

Ik I'm putting a lot of work on u but please 🙏

[verbal imp]

its not working in my browser, and have no time

[wintry sleet]

damnn

ight thx alot for your help was really helpful

oh i just realised

Congrats on winning tmt challenge 🎊

[wintry sleet]

WAIT IS THIS WHY??

sorry im i pushing it too much

[verbal imp]

if you don't have runtime errors then don't worry static analyser warnings for some project it require special configuration to work good

[wintry sleet]

ohh i see

but is it not still likley this might be the root cause

[wintry sleet]

i will keep in mind that btw thx

[verbal imp]

check your browser console for errors and flask log

[wintry sleet]

oh god yeah

check this out

[verbal imp]

some file names are wrongly generated 7B is encoded {

[wintry sleet]

Huh wdym

Ohh I see

[verbal imp]

template is not going through template engine but is served client directly

[wintry sleet]

How did u get that lmao explain so I can do the same

From this how would ik what to fix?

whats the explicit way you found out as in what line and how would i know how to fix it

[verbal imp]

whats in flask log

[wintry sleet]

il be honest idk where to go for that or how to set it up

[verbal imp]

its showing here

[wintry sleet]

Oh then whats this i found

https://www.askpython.com/python-modules/flask/flask-logging

[verbal imp]

hmm, compare this

with this

this are 2 different servers

[wintry sleet]

Oh am i connected to the wrong server?

[wintry sleet]

Because the web opens up automatically as soon as i click open live

Should i change it to 55

[verbal imp]

lol don't use vscode live server, its only for static websites

[wintry sleet]

Ohh lmaoo

[verbal imp]

ctr click flask link in console

[wintry sleet]

Then what?

[verbal imp]

this one

[wintry sleet]

Ah gotcha

Hold on

whats csrf

[verbal imp]

ask your team members how to config this

[wintry sleet]

does this not help?

get_config?

[verbal imp]

idk that flask_wtf lib so can't help

[wintry sleet]

Ah thats fair

I cant ask them tho for some reasons

[wintry sleet]

But can you tell me

How did u get this

Im interested and want to learn

[verbal imp]

this is flask template engine syntax (by default jinja2), jinja replace this with generated html, so if you see this on page that means jinja didn't parse it

same is here %XX is some special char encoded to be safely used in URL, you can google them %7B is { and %7D is } and %20 is space so its {{ url_for(...) }} its jinja syntax

[wintry sleet]

Ohh i see

Then whats csrf about?

[verbal imp]

csrf is acronym for hackers attack method Cross-Site Request Forgery and in flask its module to secure your app against this attacks

[wintry sleet]

Ohh i see

After config that, would it fix the page

[wintry sleet]

Il search it up for more info

Also should i leave mongo is not defined

[wintry sleet]

Hold on so how does csrf affect that

Oh you went offline: Thx for all of ur help so far, i hope u can answer my q when ur online again @verbal imp

[verbal imp]

no this wasn't caused by csrf this was cos you didn't open page served by flask but served by vscode which is not using flask so no dynamic generated content

[wintry sleet]

so how would i open page served by flask

[wintry sleet]

and what will fixing csrf have a effect on?

[verbal imp]

will fix this error

[wintry sleet]

Ohh i see and thats that

so how would i open page served by flask

[verbal imp]

you did opened it already (ctrl + click on link in console, or you can type that address manually in browser) as on same screen you can see get requests

to fix that error and other possible check if you have config.py filled with values if not you need to set all this environmental variables

[wintry sleet]

Ah alr, techinically i didnt open it with flask cus when i closed vscode and reran innit.py it didnt provide me with any link

[wintry sleet]

So all these variables need to be configured

[verbal imp]

all that are used by some code i don't know how much code is already implemented and how much of them are used

[wintry sleet]

How would i check

[verbal imp]

you can search for them in source or add them when you see errors so for now you need SECRET_KEY, MONGO_URI is overwritten in __init__.py its ok till you use local development db, it needs to be changed when website will be deployed

[wintry sleet]

How would overwritten

Im confused

[verbal imp]

here is hardcoded instead loaded from config/environment variable

[wintry sleet]

[verbal imp]

this line app.config should not exists and next mongo.init_app(app) should be below load_configuration(app), what is now is ok till you run on your machine during developing process, but shouldn't ever reach deployment

this mongo URI should be saved as environmental variable or in config.py that should never be checked in repository and in production only environmental variable should be used no config.py

[wintry sleet]

If its ok then why do i get the errors

[verbal imp]

i say only MONGO_URI currently is ok and it don't give you error

SECRET_KEY which gives you error you need to set

[wintry sleet]

So that i dont neee to worry about when im developing the pages

Ohh i see so it shouldnt reach deployment

are you talking about these fields

[wintry sleet]

Is this what ur saying or no?

[verbal imp]

so they give you clear instruction to follow and you didn't

[wintry sleet]

No i just found it

This is for configuration right?

And that will fix the errors right??

[verbal imp]

if you follow all of them and don't make mistake then yes it should work

[wintry sleet]

Yeah thx, so that would then allow the pages to be dynamic generated content

[verbal imp]

if you don't use vscode live preview but flask server then yes

[wintry sleet]

I should use what because i dont get the link anymore

It onlr runs when i use vscode live preview

[verbal imp]

you need to see this

if you don't it will not work

and trying to use live preview is completely pointless

[wintry sleet]

Thats the thing i dont see that anymore i just see thr flask logs

[verbal imp]

if you see flask logs thats ok

this means server is running and request comes to flask

you can use ctrl-c to stop it and if you run again you'll see again whats on above image

[wintry sleet]

Ah ic after pressing ctrl c il get the link again and i just go to that right?

[verbal imp]

yes, some changes in code can be seen when flask is running, for most you need restart flask server

[wintry sleet]

Flask server? Do u mean the link

Just reload it ?

[verbal imp]

no thats page on client side

[verbal imp]

flask server is on this image what python is running

[wintry sleet]

Ohh i see by pressing ctrl c i am restartung the flask server?

[verbal imp]

pressing ctr -c and staring server again, as ctrl-c only stops server

[wintry sleet]

Ahh yeah i get it

So

After i configure it and go to a html page it should be showing dynamic content right?

[verbal imp]

yes if flask starts without errors

[wintry sleet]

Ayy nice so only configuration is left?

And also in what instance would i use the go live rather than the flask server

[verbal imp]

if you write static page only

where static means everything happens on client side there is no need to talk to server except download files that are stored on server (server don't generate nothing in runtime)

[wintry sleet]

So u wouldnt run a home page with that as it is dynamic

[verbal imp]

its not single page from whole website that needs to be static or dynamic its whole website that need to be static

[wintry sleet]

Hold on but am i not running static cus it says u would use html and css

How would u know the website im working on is dynamic is it because of flask

And syntax

[verbal imp]

you always use html and css as that whats needed for browser to display page

[wintry sleet]

Yeah make sense

[verbal imp]

if you write code that will run on server side thats when website is dynamic, and yes flask is framework to run on server, browser can't run python code

[wintry sleet]

Ahhhh

Honeslt i appreciate u being very patient with me and thx alot for ur help

[verbal imp]

yw

[wintry sleet]

Have a nice day tovis

[wintry sleet]

@verbal imp hey Yan 😅 need help

up to this iv followed instruction (up to run index.py) but when now when i run index.py it says "No module named 'config" so i dowloaded the module from cmd now it shows "No module named 'config.template'"

sorry to disturb you again, hope you can help

[verbal imp]

what cmd you used?

[wintry sleet]

i used cd (the directory) mkdir instance

which created a folder

i then moved config templates inside instance and renamed it to

config.py

as well as doing pip install -r requirements.txt

[verbal imp]

show full current error

[wintry sleet]

sure

just to be clear

here i am

[wintry sleet]

any ideas?

[verbal imp]

show file tree from vscode

[verbal imp]

dont use windows explorer to rename files or turn on show file extension

it need to be named config.py not config.py.py

right click in vscode and choose rename

[wintry sleet]

done but still shows

ohh becuase i renamed config.template to config.py it does not recognise where to from

is that why?

[verbal imp]

yes, but it shouldn't work like that, show readme above that renaming config.py

[wintry sleet]

does that help?

[verbal imp]

this line is not orginaly in that file,
why did you added it? you should read config from app.config dictionary not from file and why do you need MONGO_URI in that file you shouldn't create another connection to data base but use already existing

[wintry sleet]

so what should it be instead?

[verbal imp]

from .. import mongo as it was orginaly if you want query db use this mongo variable look how its done in other functions in that file

[wintry sleet]

should i take this out completely then ?

[wintry sleet]

is it not the app.config dictionary
thats just specifying it manually

[verbal imp]

in index.py yes this line is not needed, same in __init__.py modify config.py and change it there

[wintry sleet]

what line and what file

[verbal imp]

probably you should delete it all clone from beginning follow the steps in readme to install and configure then run without touching any code (except config.py) if website is running correctly then do your changes to code

[wintry sleet]

alr let me try that

should i just copy my current code in config py and place it in the new clone

@verbal imp

[wintry sleet]

from the start

Right back where we started :/

[verbal imp]

did you corrected MONGO_URI in config.py?

[wintry sleet]

Yeah

[verbal imp]

add in __init__.py in line 76 (move mongo.inint_app(app) one line down) print(app.config["MONGO_URI"])

[wintry sleet]

like this?

[verbal imp]

yes

run and show output

[wintry sleet]

should i run index

[verbal imp]

yes

[verbal imp]

show more

everything from your command down

[verbal imp]

it didnt read config.py

[wintry sleet]

well i havnt did configuration/ the instruction from readme yet 😅

ill do it now lmaoo

OH MYY , im actually so sorry for my stupidity i could avoided wasting u time for hours.im really sorry

[verbal imp]

you learnt something, remember if you clone some project first make it run before you do any changes, and good project will have instructions how to set it up

if its working remove that print you added

[wintry sleet]

yeah will do, im so sorry thx alot for coping with me and being so patient